Zebra Technologies Transforms Global Sourcing with Scout RFP

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Scout
RFP, a leader in the cloud-based strategic e-sourcing solutions
space, is pleased to announce its extended relationship with
longstanding customer Zebra
Technologies (NASDAQ: ZBRA), a global leader in providing solutions
and services that give enterprises real-time visibility into their
operations. This expanded relationship will enable Zebra to utilize
Scout’s solution, including the recently launched Pipeline and Intake
tools, across its global group for easier collaboration, smarter
spending and improved business outcomes.

Early on, Zebra had identified a need for a streamlined sourcing project
relationship process, and Scout answered with the release of Pipeline
and Intake. These tools have helped Zebra streamline sourcing project
visibility across the enterprise, improve spend management, collaborate
on strategic opportunities in real time and better guide business
outcomes through automation of the company’s internal sourcing process.

“We appreciate that Scout RFP has been stakeholder-oriented and
collaboration-focused from the beginning,” said Gautam Jha, VP of Supply
Chain Integration & Operations at Zebra Technologies. “Using Pipeline
and Intake allowed us to quickly gain a better perspective on sourcing
and procurement planning, forecasting, collaborating with stakeholders
and greatly improving overall business impact — so much so that we have
seen multi-million dollar savings to date.”

Zebra’s implementation of Scout’s Pipeline and Intake allowed for
dramatically improved sourcing project efficiency and effectiveness. The
tools bring better visibility to currently open projects and commodity
manager work load, as well as track project timelines and SLAs. All this
is helping reduced timing for sourcing and procurement activity. After a
successful deployment in North America, Zebra expanded Scout’s presence
throughout its international team, and integrated Pipeline planning into
its global workflow process. Now, Zebra’s global sourcing team is able
to collaborate with suppliers, stakeholders and the office of finance,
all in one easy-to-use-tool.